I loved it...fourth time I went down there.
I know a bunch of families who rent a big house in Rodanthe, and boy, is that fun. Great place, nice shape, lots of room, big deck facing the sound, and you can see the Atlantic on the other side from the kitchen. Watch the sun rise and set over the ocean twice a day.
Great thunderstorms.
Not many people around then...drank some moonshine at night (the legal stuff, of course...:) great breakfasts in the morning. What could go wrong?
There’s some history around Rodanthe. Mirlo Beach. Pity what the last hurricane did there, the houses at Mirlo Beach were something to behold, inspired by the old life saving station and lighthouses, some were huge, several were whimsical. Most fallen into the Atlantic now.
Nearby Waves is fun, too, with the big watersports outdoor center, all the parasailing, kiteboarding, always a lot of interesting, colorful airborne contraptions with people suspended beneath, lol.
That’s about as far north as I go, beyond Waves, Salvo and Rodanthe the ocean temps drop off fairly dramatically.
Place had a hot tub on the deck facing the sound.
Got a beer an cigar, turned on my playlist of all of Bill Frisell’s stuff, put the speaker a few feet away so I didn’t have to turn it up. Lowered myself in, popped the top off of that ice cold Yuengling, lit up the cigar, and sat in that damned tub until I nearly melted and went right down the drain!
Everyone had gone out to some beach, and it was just me at the house, nobody around...now, THAT is relaxing!